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Number 1213 uses part of a photograph of Sophia Loren. Number 1214 uses an AI image I generated on NightCafé. It’s fun, has a free level, and if you sign up with that link, I'll get some image credits.

This one began as the cover of New Detective, March, 1947. I enjoy using the hard-boiled and melodramatic language of pulp cover blurbs to hype songs. A danceable song about romance and betrayal... how does it feel to imagine it? 

#1209 uses a 1917 photo of the downed German Zeppelin L49. #1210 began with a photo by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. #1211 repurposes a vintage Soviet propaganda poster.

#1206 and #1207 feel like classic New Wave to me, related to The Cure or The Psychedelic Furs, but perhaps with female vocals. I enjoy how Photoshop's Extrude filter can transform photographs, making people both realistic and warm yet digitized and abstracted, shifted...

Two more using Ingrid Mono, using more layers and more muted colors. My typographic grid/concrete poetry style covers seem to have limited appeal, but I enjoy testing legibility limits and arranging letterforms and words in visual and logical patterns. Resonances,...

1201 and 1202 use Erica Type. 1203 uses Ingrid Mono.

Number 1198 is based on the Earle Bergey cover of Fantastic Story Quarterly, Spring 1950. Number 1199 uses the Kelly Freas cover of Planet Stories, March 1954. Number 1200 uses most of a brochure cover from the Manufacturers' Research Committee of the Department of...

Number 1195 began with a photo of Venetia Stevenson by Don Ornitz (circa late 1950s). Number 1196 began with a photo of Jeanne Carmen from the film Guns Don’t Argue (1957). Number 1197 began with the cover of Detective Novel magazine, April 1945.

Number 1192 is based on a poster for the film The Man They Couldn't Arrest (1931). Number 1193 is based on a poster for the film Cosmic Voyage (USSR, 1936). Number 1193 is based on a poster for the film Planet of the Female Invaders (Mexico, 1966).

Number 1189 is based on an illustration by Virgil Finlay. Number 1190 is a rework of the cover of Real Detective, June 1938. Number 1191 uses part of a photograph of Hedy Lamarr.

The latest four, numbers 1185-1188. Catharsis is real.

If they sounded like they looked and you liked how they sounded… what would that be like?

Old hypnosis and magic show posters work well for Mesmeric Condition.

Numbers 1176 uses an Earle Bergey cover from Thrilling Wonder Stories (December 1941). Number 1177 is based on a vintage poster for Thurston the Magician. Number 1178 is another Bergey cover, this one from Captain Future (Summer 1941).

Numbers 1173 and 1175 use images I created using the Craiyon AI. Number 1174’s background started with an image I pulled off the web and heavily modified.

Old science fiction pulp magazine covers can work well for this band.

I’ll continue to create designs for 7" singles like 1167 and 1169, but I am no longer able to find the frames I have been using. If anyone wants a print of that size, the framing will be different and (unfortunately) more expensive. Thankfully, 12" frames continue to...

1164 is based on the cover of Hotel Talleyrand by Paul Hyde Bonner (Bantam A1405, 1955). 1165 is from Fantastic Adventures (June 1940), though I put a hat-tip in the text to Weird Tales. 1166 is from Thrilling Wonder Stories (Fall 1945): another Earle Bergey painting,...